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dado

UK/ˈdeɪdəʊ//ˈdeɪdoʊ/

dado noun: the section of a pedestal above the base.

dado: the section of a pedestal above the base
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Noun

dado (plural dados or dadoes)

  1. The section of a pedestal above the base.
  2. The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
    • Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    • Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3
  3. A rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
    • Next, cut stopped dadoes in the shelf and the underside of the top for the vertical dividers.2026 August, Logan Wittmer, “Whiskey Cabinet”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 56

Verb

dado (third-person singular simple present dadoes, present participle dadoing, simple past and past participle dadoed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a dado.
  2. (transitive) To cut a dado.

Proper noun capitalized: Dado

Dado (plural Dados)

  1. A surname.

dado meaning in Tamil and Persian

dado in Tamil

சுவர்ப்பட்டி, பீடவிடை, கனச்சதுர வடிவப் பகடைக்காய், கறி, இரும்பு இணைப்புகளில் பயனாகும் நட்டுகள், இச்சொல் மீனின் குஞ்சினைக் குறிக்கிறது

dado in Persian

lower portion of interior wall
ازاره ezâre

Forms of dado

Noun
pluraldados
pluraldadoes
Verb
third-person singular presentdadoes
present participledadoing
past participledadoed
pastdadoed
Proper noun
pluralDados

Origin of dado

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Words formed from dado

Phrases with dado

Words that rhyme with dado

Questions about dado

What does dado mean?
Dado means the section of a pedestal above the base.
What is dado in Tamil?
Dado in Tamil is சுவர்ப்பட்டி, பீடவிடை, கனச்சதுர வடிவப் பகடைக்காய். See Dado meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dado?
Dado can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dado?
Dado is pronounced /ˈdeɪdəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of dado?
The plural of dado is dados.

Words near dado in the dictionary

  1. Dadlington and Sutton Cheney
  2. dadly
  3. dadness
  4. dadney
  5. dadny
  6. dado
  7. dado rail
  8. dado rails
  9. dadoed
  10. dadoes
  11. dadoing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dado (page history and authors); Dado (page history and authors); dado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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